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Bao Dai
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Bao Dai Bao Dai (1913-1997) was the last emperor of Vietnam. Opportunism, absence...the 1955 referendum. The son of Khai Dinah, who became emperor in 1916, Bao Dai was born in the protectorate of Annam, part of French-governed Indochina...
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...was named minister of interior in Emperor Bao Dai's central administration of the protectorate...however, because neither the French nor Bao Dai would support reforms he advocated...refused. He also declined to participate in Bao Dai's pro-French government of limited...
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Vietnam
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...and established a Vietnamese state under Emperor Bao Dai. After the war, Bao Dai's government collapsed, and the nationalist...Minh, and South Vietnam under the French-supported Bao Dai. In 1955, Bao Dai was deposed and Ngo Dinh Diem...
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Vietnam War
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...Democratic Republic of Vietnam) led by the Viet Minh, and the anticommunist South (the Republic of Vietnam) under the emperor Bao Dai. The seeds of war were sown in the very language of the Geneva Accords, which called for an election to take place in July...
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Annam
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Indochina was occupied by the Japanese, who set up the autonomous state of Vietnam, comprising Tonkin, Annam, and Cochin China; Bao Dai, the last emperor of Vietnam, was established as ruler. After the war Annamese and Tonkinese nationalists demanded independence...
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Diem, Ngo Dinh
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...63) Vietnamese statesman, prime minister of South Vietnam (1954–63). In 1955 he formed a republic, forcing Bao Dai into exile. At first, Diem received strong US support but corruption and setbacks in the Vietnam War led to growing discontent...
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French Indo-China
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...in the fighting that followed about 1,700 French troops were killed or simply massacred. The Japanese now persuaded the Emperor of Annam, Bao Dai (b.1913), to declare Annam and Tongkin independent, which he did on 11 March 1945, thou
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Duong Van Minh
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...incarceration, but he agreed upon release to serve the French for another four years under the puppet government of Emperor Bao Dai. When a Vietnamese army was created in 1952, two years before independence, Minh jumped at the chance to join. Soon he...
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The Vietnam War and Its Impact
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
...Shortly thereafter the Geneva Conference was held, bringing together representatives of Vietminh-controlled territory and Bao Dai's French-controlled government — which would later evolve into North and South Vietnam, respectively —...
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Chinese
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...ALTAIC DIALECTS Turkish (Uighur, Kazakh, Salar, Tatar, Uzbek, Yugur, Kirghiz: 8.6 million) Mongolian (Mongols, Bao'an, Dagur, Santa, Tu: 5.6 million) Tungus (Manchus, Ewenki, Hezhen, Oroqen, Xibo: 10 million) Korean (1.9...
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